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Tom
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| Posted 2/10/2007 6:59 PM (GMT -6) |   | | Rom. 8: "(38) For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, (39) neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
What are we to understand by "height" and "depth"? Surely he's not talking spatially (God loves us no matter how tall or short we are; no matter our altitude or depth in the sea."
But what?
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One Love
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| Posted 2/10/2007 7:09 PM (GMT -6) | | A thought.
Maybe he was just talking in terms of expanse.
Like "as far as the east is from the west" kinda stuff.
The "gulf of separation" that we measure by height and depth.
And maybe Paul was saying that no perceived gulf of separation, however LARGE it may seem to us...has a longer "REACH" than God's love.
And that just makes sense when thinking of this Scripture...which Paul may have been thinking about...
Psalm 139
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depth, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
Just a thought.
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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